Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences

        Howard Gardner is an American psycologist who proposed the Theory of Multiple Intelligences.

This could be really useful to work with our students. If we know which is their "dominant" intelligence we will know how do they learn better.

Here you have the main features of each intelligence:

Linguistic Intelligence

    •    You love read and write

    •     You enjoy with word games.

    •     You can remember names and places          .    .    easily.

    •     You like listening to stories and tells.

    •     You have a lot of vocabulary.

Linguiatic students absorb information by engaging with reading materials and by discussing and debating ideas.

Logical-mathematical Intelligence

    •   You like logic games

    •    You can calculate mentally

    •    You like abstract ideas, puzzles, playing         .     chess…

Learn by classifying, categorizing, and thinking abstractly about patterns, relationships, and numbers.

Musical Intelligence

    •   You can sing.

    •   You can remember sounds, rhythms and melodies

    •   You work better when you are listening to music.

They learn using rhythm or melody, especially by singing or listening to music.

Intrapersonal Intelligence

    •    You prefer to work alone.

    •    You can motivate yourself.

    •    You are intuitive and independent.

    •    You have a good self-esteem.

They learn best by working alone and setting individual goals. Intrapersonal learners are not necessarily shy; they are independent and organized.

Interpersonal Intelligence

    •    You are empathic

    •    You like working in groups

    •    You are a good leader

    •    You love social games.

    •    You can listen each other.

They learn through relating to others by sharing, comparing, and cooperating. Interpersonal learners can make excellent group leaders and team players.

Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence

    •    You don’t like stay quietly.

    •    You like sports, dancing or drama.

    •    You have a good coordination

    •    You always remember corporal sensations

They learn best through touch and movement. These people are best at processing information through the body. Sometimes kinesthetic learners work best standing up and moving rather than sitting still.

Spatial Intelligence

    •    You learn with images or pictures

    •    You love drawing, designing, building…

    •    You can read maps and diagrams.

    •    You love machines

    •    You have got sense of orientation.

They learn best by drawing or visualizing things using the mind’s eye. Visual people learn the most from pictures, diagrams, and other visual aids.

Naturalistic Intelligence

     •    You love nature and enviorement

     •    You enjoy with open air activities.

     •    You like collect, classify and read about nature

Learn by working with nature. Naturalistic students enjoy learning about living things and natural events. They may excel in the sciences and be very passionate about environmental issues.

This is a link for a Multiple Intelligences guidance test: Multiple Intelligence test

Boom’s Taxonomy

         Bloom's taxonomy refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students, starting from lower cognigtive process to higher ones. Here you can see an image about the revised Bloom's Taxonomy and activities to develop each step:

           Boom’s Taxonomy is widely known for professionals of education.  However, if you take a closer look to the reality, teachers use to keep using the same methodologies because traditional classes require less work.

Beside that, as teachers, we can find useful tips and ideas to teach through Bloom's Taxonomy on this site:   Educational origami

I want to show a simple analogy about a bottle of water and how we can use it to develope Bloom's Taxonomy through different questions:

• Remembering: “What is a bottle?  What does it look like?”

• Applying: Now that you know what a bottle is used for, how do you use it?  

• Analyzing: If you are able to take apart that bottle, what is the function of each part?  What is each part’s importance and role in making that bottle being able to do the task it is used for?

• Evaluating: Is the bottle the best way to be doing the things that it is currently used for?

• Understanding: "Can you say some uses for a bottle?  It can be used to keep water or liquits but are there other uses as well?”

• Creating: Thinking about the other uses for a bottle, design into groups an object that can be used for accomplish one of the functions of the bottle.

The best teacher I've ever had

I would like to start this blog doing a small reflection what I think every teacher should do.

What makes a great teacher? When I try to answer that question, many different teachers who have pass through my life come to my mind. But there is one of them that I remember the most.  He taught me history and geography at secondary school. I remember how was he able to make all the students to pay attention just with a look. And, actually, we were really interested about what he was going to explain.  The most boring subject became something really engaging. He was a strict person but friendly and close at the same time. You could feel how he trusted you and how he trusted on your potential. For that reason, he used to be harder than the other teachers.

When I think about that kind of teacher I want to became, I remember my history and geography teacher at secondary school.